Yale University and WHO launch innovative partnership to scale up Behavioural Sciences for Better Health initiative

Yale University and WHO launch innovative partnership to scale up Behavioural Sciences for Better Health initiative The Yale Research Initiative on Innovation and Scale (Y-RISE) and the World Health Organization’s Behavioural Insights Unit have signed a Memorandum of Understanding agreeing to work together over the next two years to contribute to the shared goals of promoting and enabling systematic use of the behavioural and social sciences in public health, designing, and scaling up evidence-based behavioural interventions.

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WHO and Y-RISE will work together to respond to requests for technical support for the planning and design stage of pilot behavioural interventions as well as requests for examining complexities of scaling up behavioural interventions. They will also give strategic advice in the area of application of behavioural sciences to public health and capacity building.

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